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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Cbc Radio Canada
Publication date
November 1, 2003
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Abridged
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780660190440
ISBN-10
0660190443
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$24.95
Other format details
audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career.
Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain his young manhood in the Paris of the early fifties, and his lifelong passion for wine, women, and the Montreal Canadiens; who either did or didn't murder his best friend, Boogie, after discovering him in bed with The Second Mrs. Panofsky; whose satirical eye for the idiocies of today's Quebec separatists (as well as for every other kind of political correctness) manages to offend his entire acquaintanceship (and will soon be offending readers everywhere); and whose memory--though not his bile--is, in his sixty-seventh year, definitely slipping . . .
Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain his young manhood in the Paris of the early fifties, and his lifelong passion for wine, women, and the Montreal Canadiens; who either did or didn't murder his best friend, Boogie, after discovering him in bed with The Second Mrs. Panofsky; whose satirical eye for the idiocies of today's Quebec separatists (as well as for every other kind of political correctness) manages to offend his entire acquaintanceship (and will soon be offending readers everywhere); and whose memory--though not his bile--is, in his sixty-seventh year, definitely slipping . . .
Editions
Hardcover
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (January 1, 1998)
9780679404187 | details & prices | 355 pages | 6.50 × 10.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Sixty-seven-year-old Barney Panofsky, the three-time divorced owner of a successful trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, looks back on his life, describing his young manhood, his three wives, and his lifelong passion for wine, women, and the Montreal Canadiens
About: Sixty-seven-year-old Barney Panofsky, the three-time divorced owner of a successful trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, looks back on his life, describing his young manhood, his three wives, and his lifelong passion for wine, women, and the Montreal Canadiens
from Vintage Uk (September 25, 1997)
9780701162726 | details & prices | 288 pages | List price $28.70
About: From his Yiddisher childhood in a coldwater flat on Montreal's St Urbain's Street, Mordecai Richler evokes a North-American Jewish adolescence, his family and friends, and leads us through the modern history of Zionism, the kibbutz movement, and Israel then and now.
About: From his Yiddisher childhood in a coldwater flat on Montreal's St Urbain's Street, Mordecai Richler evokes a North-American Jewish adolescence, his family and friends, and leads us through the modern history of Zionism, the kibbutz movement, and Israel then and now.
Paperback
Mti rep edition from Vintage Books (January 4, 2011)
9780307741097 | details & prices | 417 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.72 lbs | List price $15.95
About: Barney PanofskyâCanadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteurâis finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rivalâs autobiography.
About: Barney PanofskyâCanadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteurâis finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rivalâs autobiography.
With Michael Panofsky (other contributor) |
from Vintage Books (May 4, 2010)
9780307476883 | details & prices | 417 pages | 5.25 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $15.95
Miscellaneous
Mti edition from Vintage Books (August 23, 2010)
9780307367389 | details & prices | List price $20.00
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
Abridged edition from Cbc Radio Canada (November 1, 2003)
9780660190440 | details & prices | List price $24.95
About: Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career.
About: Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career.
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